Hope I'm not interfering too much by throwing in my 2 cents, but here goes....
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:40:41PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > On Mon, 05 May 2008 the mental interface of
> > Filippo Giunchedi told:
> >
> > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:03:23PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > > tags 467421 severity normal
> > > > This isn't a Debian bug. 2.6.25.rc2 isn't in the repo.
> > >
> > > now it is, alsa-source still FTBFSes, this bug should be important now
> >
> > The bug is fixed upstream and will be released on next upload.
> > Meanwhile yo can build 1.0.16rc2 from with in kernel 2.6.25.
>
> exactly which version?
>
> from my testing alsa-source 1.0.16-1.1 fails to build with linux-2.6 2.6.25-1.
> Same goes for the 1.0.16 tarball from alsa-project.org and a pristine 2.6.25.1
>
> filippo
I believe Elimar was trying to say that new 'alsa-source' packages are being
prepared which _will_ compile OK with 2.6.25* kernels; and he is saying that
kernel 2.6.25 itself is packaged with ALSA 1.0.16-rc2, but that means building
ALSA _into_ the kernel and _not_ using ALSA in the form of kernel modules.
If I am not mistaken there has been an API change and versions of ALSA released
before kernel 2.6.25 was released will not build with kernel 2.6.25 (without
patches, and I don't know if anyone has prepared such patches). I am in the
habit of replacing the ALSA sources in the kernel tree with newer sources
obtained directly from alsa-project.org; when I built 2.6.25 for the first time
this past weekend I found that the last stable release of ALSA (1.0.16) would
not work with it, though it works fine with kernel 2.6.24.
When I had built 2.6.24 for the first time, I had made a mistake using
Mercurial and had obtained a post-1.0.16 version of ALSA to replace the kernel
sources, and found that even 2.6.24 would not build because they immediately
changed the API to support features only available in the upcoming 2.6.25
kernel. I quickly checked out the correct ALSA sources for the official ALSA
1.0.16 release, and that build with 2.6.24 OK.
The 2.6.25 kernel has been packaged with a version of ALSA slightly older than
1.0.16 (the 1.0.16-rc2 version in the kernel is a few days older), and it has
been patched to work correctly. But all of the available Debian packages for
building ALSA modules were designed for kernels before 2.6.25... though Elimar
mentioned that new 'alsa-source' packages compatible with 2.6.25 are coming
soon.
You have these options:
1) Just build kernel 2.6.25 with the ALSA sources provided with it. Those are
nearly
identical to the official ALSA 1.0.16 release, anyway.
2) Use Mercurial to obtain 'alsa-kernel' sources directly from
alsa-project.org, like
I do. These have no real "version" number to speak of, and are several
months
newer than the official 1.0.16 ALSA release. You can build ALSA directly
into the
kernel or as loadable modules this way, but if you build them as modules
you will
not have nice DEBs that can be installed, uninstalled, reinstalled, etc.
(This
presents no problem that I know of, however.)
3) Wait for the Debian ALSA Maintainers to provide new 'alsa-source' packages
before
moving to the 2.6.25 kernel.
HTH,
Dave Witbrodt
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